A mediumly successful rock concert was held in July 1986 on land where old town had been demolished in 1981. Dr and the Medics it seems were the headline act ?

This shows artwork painted on the walls on the site.

A 19th century view looking towards Hartlepool from Carr House Sands at the south end of Seaton Carew. The church of St Hilda and the town wall can be seen in the distance. A horse and cart are waiting to be loaded, probably with sea coal.

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Kip, Cissy May and Hazel Herring outside No.48 South Street. Hazel is holding a very nice fan.

Kip Herring and his young son Norman outside the back door of No.48 South Street, 'Old Town', in 1949/50.

Across Mainsforth Terrace from Musgrave Street, there was a level crossing across the railway into Old Town. The signal box is still there in this picture. The houses were demolished in 1981 having replaced the original Old Town housing.

taken I. March 1953, the image shows Chris Willoughby from the Water Board with a tank of water supplying the locals in South St and Pilot St. Nacy Evans holds the jug, Mrs McFarlane with a kettle, the lady on the left was Mrs Harvey and the boy John Garthwaite. A pipe supplying the houses had burst.

The image was taken in 1972 and shows the tunnel which ran from the bottom of Church Street, under the railway lines and into Old Town. It was very often flooded.

John Churchill (left), and Norman Herring standing in a front garden in South Street, 'Old Town', in 1949/50.

The Union Hotel opened in 1851 on the corner of Pimlico Street and Bridge Street in Old Town. From 1912 till 1964 just before closure, the landlord/lady was called Carr and the pub was known locally as Carr's.

An article in South Durham Herald 1869, shown in Marie Louise McKay's book The Lion Roars and the Monkey Bites, tells us that the hotel was connected to the Union Brewery and had ' excellent cellar connections with it' .